Protected Areas and Food Security: Unravelling the Issues

Vasquez, Winy; Sunderland, T.C.H.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-41686-7_4

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“…The five main ways in which they do this are through ecosystem services, direct provisioning of wild foods, bioenergy, source of income, and health. Adapted from Vasquez & Sunderland (2021). …”

Section: Forests People and Foodmentioning

confidence: 99%

The rights way forward: reconciling the right to food with biodiversity conservation

Vasquez

Sunderland

2023

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The current paradigm of biodiversity conservation, with its continued focus on the notion of pristine nature, has resulted in the separation of humans and nature at the expense of both biological and cultural–linguistic diversity. The continued annexation of land for the cause of conservation has resulted in the curtailment of both rights and access to local and diverse food sources for many rural communities. Indigenous Peoples and local communities are fundamental to conserving biodiversity through sustainable use of nature despite repeated attempts to dispossess them from their lands, cultures and knowledge. It has been this traditional and land-based knowledge that has contributed to the conservation of biodiversity whilst also supporting healthy, diverse and nutritious diets. If we are to achieve a more just and sustainable future, we need to continue to centre conservation initiatives around rights, access and equity whilst respecting a plurality of perspectives, worldviews and knowledge systems. Here we review alternative approaches that help reconcile the right to food with biodiversity conservation, such as biocultural rights, rights-based approaches and integrated land management schemes, with the aim of identifying optimal ways forward for conservation that break away from the dichotomous view that pits people against nature and instead embrace the importance of this symbiotic relationship.

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Section: Forests People and Foodmentioning

confidence: 99%

The rights way forward: reconciling the right to food with biodiversity conservation

Vasquez

Sunderland

2023

Oryx

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“…Any exclusion from forested areas could therefore have profound impacts on food and livelihood security. [68] These density calculations do not include the people within existing protected areas or an accurate estimate of nomadic/mobile populations.…”

Section: Figure 4: Distribution Of People Living Within Important Conservation Areas By Income Statusmentioning

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“…[156] These "tough-on-crime" policies are found to be ineffective in preventing or disincentivizing wildlife crime. [157] As a result, these strategies would perpetuate historical injustices at the detriment of rural livelihoods [158,159] and food security [68] for hundreds of millions of already marginalized people across the world.…”

Section: Box 3: Preliminary Findings From Comparison Of Deforestation Rates: Need For More Rigorous Analysismentioning

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Rights-Based Conservation: The path to preserving Earth's biological and cultural diversity?

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2020

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This report is informed by the imperative to prevent the collapse of biodiversity while respecting the tenure and human rights of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendant Peoples. It seeks to highlight the risks and opportunities arising out of the proposed expansion of conservation areas by asking the following questions: 1) How many people live within important biodiversity conservation areas, including existing protected areas that could be affected by future conservation action required to meet biodiversity protection imperatives? 2) What is the distribution of people living in important biodiversity conservation areas according to the income status of countries? 3) As a notional exercise, what could be the potential financial cost of exclusionary conservation practices applied to all high biodiversity value terrestrial areas? 4) What are the costs and benefits of community rights-based conservation as an alternate pathway for the expansion of areas under conservation to meet biodiversity goals? 5) To what extent would recognizing and enforcing the collective tenure rights of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendant Peoples contribute towards area-based targets for conservation?

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“…In particular, land protection frequently supports new economic activity based on recreation or tourism (Dixon and Sherman 1990; Wu and Plantinga 2003; Rasker et al 2013; Koontz et al 2017). Land protection may also help to maintain businesses that rely on the sustainable harvest of natural products including timber and non-timber forest products, or may provide access to these resources in times of economic distress (Vasquez and Sunderland 2020; Ferraro and Simorangkir 2020; Murray et al 2021). However, these possibilities also raise concerns that the type of development opportunities created by land protection may especially reinforce existing inequalities of capital or skill.…”

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Towards equity in land protection

Sims

2023

Agric. Resour. Econom. Rev.

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Land protection not only supports vital ecosystem services but also poses important challenges for social equity. Three key concerns emerge from economic frameworks about land protection policies: potential lost local economic development, reinforcement of existing structural inequalities, and disparities in access to the benefits of protected land. This article reviews evidence for each concern and identifies research needs as well as potential improvements in policy that could better support equity goals. Pathways forward towards greater equity include specific mechanisms that can ensure local communities benefit from land protection, attention to issues of spatial impacts and timing, explicit prioritization of equity in land protection initiatives, and community-centred processes. Economists have and can continue to play a role in strengthening these dimensions of land protection policies.

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Protected Areas and Food Security: Unravelling the Issues

Cited by 3 publications

References 85 publications

The rights way forward: reconciling the right to food with biodiversity conservation

The rights way forward: reconciling the right to food with biodiversity conservation

Rights-Based Conservation: The path to preserving Earth's biological and cultural diversity?

Towards equity in land protection

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